Two thirds of women experiencing menopause symptoms delay seeking support or never seek it

MARRIED mum Madhu Kapoor hailed the Holland & Barrett nurse-led helpline, telling the Daily Express: "I privation this was disposable erstwhile I went done the menopause."

Madhu, present 58, near her HR and recruitment occupation aft 23 years moving to go a civilian servant owed to her horrific perimenopause symptoms.

Then successful her aboriginal 40s, she began to announcement a scope of carnal and intelligence changes specified arsenic dry, itchy, burning skin, nighttime sweats, sleepless nights, play migraines, associated aches and pains.

Madhu tried to proceed being the independent, assured pistillate her colleagues knew her as, but implicit clip these symptoms took a toll and she could not cope.

Madhu, from northbound London, said: "I didn't truly cognize what was happening. I was losing myself and didn’t similar the idiosyncratic I was becoming."

Unfortunately GPs failed to explicate her symptoms and Madhu said her South-Asian upbring made her consciousness uncomfortable discussing backstage wellness matters with colleagues oregon friends.

Instead she suffered successful soundlessness explaining: "I wasn't lone impacted astatine work, I was impacted astatine location arsenic well. I got to the signifier wherever I felt emotionless.

"I went from being a loving parent and woman to not caring astir my daughters and husband. I was conscionable drifting distant from everyone and into the unknown.

"Being successful my 40s, I thought it was going to beryllium a decennary of enjoying beingness and progressing successful my vocation due to the fact that my daughters were older.

"I was looking guardant to gathering that narration up again with my hubby arsenic the girls didn't truly request maine that much.

"But the perimenopause symptoms controlled maine and this delayed the narration from growing."

Discussing however the Holland & Barrett helpline could person helped her she said: "It’s fantastic Holland & Barrett is committed to helping women and providing a work often missing successful menopause support.

"There was obscurity to spell for assistance backmost successful 2014 and 2015 erstwhile I needed it, I felt isolated."

After turning her menopause travel around, successful 2019 Madhu founded 'M for Menopause' having learnt galore lessons on the mode - to guarantee nary idiosyncratic faces the aforesaid challenges she did, and began helping others with theirs.

She aims to rise consciousness successful antithetic communities, portion besides normalising menopause conversations, done workshops, training, and supporting women.

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